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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 01-05-2020 20:56
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| [img-l]https://i.imgur.com/oApXgoq.png[/img-l] | Vuelta a Espana: Stage 15 | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/oApXgoq.png[/img-r] |
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So far this Vuelta has been about Simon Yates and crashes. And today was no different. Two of Jumbo main riders crashed: Laurens De Plus and Mike Teunissen. While De Plus was unharmed and was able to rejoin the red jersey group rather easily, Teunissen was not so lucky and he had to retire for a second time in a Grand Tour this year due to a crash.
We had a breakaway very similar to the one from the previous stages. But there's a reason why most of these guys are out of the GC fight and that is their legs. Today only one survivor: Giulio Ciccone. But with everyone finishing more than 2 minutes behind him, he did not only get the stage win but a nice jump in the overall rankings as well
Froome can't be happy with losing both of his Grand Tour crowns from last year. And he was on attack today. Multiple times. Yates wasn't bothered to follow him most of the time so he must have been really surprised when inside the last kilometer the red jersey wearer flew past him. Yates has been timing his attacks to perfection so far and today he displayed it once again
Losing a bit of energy to get back into the pack after his crash might have affected De Plus today as he struggle on such a long climb. He lost time to all of his main rivals today, but at the end of the stage he still stands in second and leading the white jersey classification by 1 minute and 51 seconds
Stage | 1. |  | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | 3h54'29 | | 2. |  | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 2'18 | | 3. |  | Thibaut Pinot | Lotto Soudal | + 2'37 | | 4. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 5. |  | Jack Haig | Mitchelton-Scott | + 2'45 | | 6. |  | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 2'53 | | 7. |  | Marc Soler | Mitchelton-Scott | + 3'13 | | 8. | | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | + 3'23 | | 9. |  | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 10. |  | Joe Dombrowski | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 11. |  | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 12. |  | Michael Woods | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 3'40 | | 13. | | Daniel Felipe Martínez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 14. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 3'55 | | 15. | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 65h30'11 | | 2. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 4'00 | | 3. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | + 5'01 | | 4. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 5'51 | | 5. | | Michael Woods | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 7'44 | | 6. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 9'35 | | 7. | | Thibaut Pinot | Lotto Soudal | + 9'55 | | 8. | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 10'31 | | 9. |  | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 10'49 | | 10. |  | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | + 11'16 | | 11. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 11'48 | | 12. | | Daniel Felipe Martínez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 11'53 | | 13. | | Léo Vincent | Groupama - FDJ | + 13'17 | | 14. | | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 13'25 | | 15. | | Marc Soler | Mitchelton-Scott | + 13'50 |
| | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 205 | | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 48 | | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | 65h34'11 |  | | Team INEOS | | 196h33'19 |
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 01-05-2020 21:04
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At the start of the stage, Froome definitely must have looked at this as an opportunity to gain time on his much younger rivals. But he did not enjoy the weather today and he ended up with a very bad ride which culminated with him being overtaken by De Plus in the last kilometer!
De Plus overtaking Froome was not only due to the Ineos rider weakness, but also due to a very strong ride put in by the former Belgian time - trial champion. De Plus absolutely flew in the last part of the stage where he gained at least one minute on everyone else to take the stage win
Yates had similar times to De Plus at the intermediate checkpoints, but as soon as the road flattened out he began losing time to the Jumbo rider, finishing in the end 1 minute and 19 seconds slower. No panic for Simon though as his lead in the overall rankings is still almost 3 minutes, while both Froome and Oomen were slower than him today.
Stage | 1. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | 53'24 | | 2. | | Philippe Gilbert | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 53 | | 3. | | Marc Soler | Mitchelton-Scott | + 1'00 | | 4. | | Niki Terpstra | Team Total Direct Energie | + 1'12 | | 5. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 1'14 | | 6. |  | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'16 | | 7. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 1'19 | | 8. |  | Nelson Oliveira | Movistar Team | + 1'20 | | 9. |  | Lennard Kämna | Team Sunweb | + 1'21 | | 10. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 11. | | Egan Bernal | Team INEOS | + 1'22 | | 12. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 1'25 | | 13. | | Daniel Felipe Martínez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 1'28 | | 14. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 1'29 | | 15. | | Alberto Bettiol | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 1'43 |
General Classification | 1. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 66h24'54 | | 2. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 2'41 | | 3. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 6'15 | | 4. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 5. | | Michael Woods | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 9'07 | | 6. | | Thibaut Pinot | Lotto Soudal | + 10'48 | | 7. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 10'55 | | 8. | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 11'02 | | 9. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 11'50 | | 10. | | Daniel Felipe Martínez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 12'02 | | 11. | | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | + 12'06 | | 12. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 12'52 | | 13. | | Marc Soler | Mitchelton-Scott | + 13'31 | | 14. | | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 14'43 | | 15. | | Pavel Sivakov | Team INEOS | + 14'53 |
| | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 214 | | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 48 | | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | 66h27'35 | | | Team INEOS | | 199h17'36 |
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Posted on 02-05-2020 12:49
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Nibali and Pinot were the strongest in the favorites group today, but those involved in the fight for the podium were not exactly interested in following them given the current gaps in the GC. The two of them caught up to Joe Dombrowski one corner before the final kilometer mark, shattering the American's hopes for a stage win
Inside the last kilometer, Pinot left the others to behind and went for the stage win. The Frenchman would also move into the top 5 at the end of the stage. He stepped up quite nicely to leadership duties after Adam Yates had to withdrew from the race and Lopez not being up for it as he is now riding his third Grand Tour of the year
No gaps between the big three today: Yates, De Plus and Froome. The latter will get back on the podium as Sam Oomen lost 30 seconds to the red jersey group today.
Stage | 1. | | Thibaut Pinot | Lotto Soudal | 4h45'59 | | 2. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 24 | | 3. | | Joe Dombrowski | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 4. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 54 | | 5. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 6. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 7. | | Tadej Pogačar | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. | | 8. | | David De la Cruz | Movistar Team | + 1'23 | | 9. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 10. | | Marc Soler | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 11. | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 12. | | Egan Bernal | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 13. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 14. | | Pavel Sivakov | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 15. | | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 71h11'47 | | 2. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 2'41 | | 3. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | + 6'15 | | 4. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 6'44 | | 5. | | Thibaut Pinot | Lotto Soudal | + 9'44 | | 6. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 11'14 | | 7. | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 11'31 | | 8. | | Michael Woods | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 11'42 | | 9. | | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | + 12'35 | | 10. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 13'14 | | 11. | | Daniel Felipe Martínez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 13'21 | | 12. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 13'53 | | 13. | | Marc Soler | Mitchelton-Scott | + 14'00 | | 14. | | Pavel Sivakov | Team INEOS | + 15'22 | | 15. | | Léo Vincent | Groupama - FDJ | + 15'43 |
| | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 228 | | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 50 | | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | 71h14'28 | | | Team INEOS | | 213h39'13 |
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Posted on 02-05-2020 14:48
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De Plus' excellence continues, great stuff! Hopefully, he can at least hold onto 2nd in the final days, and who knows, maybe that TT momentum (awesome win!) could carry over into an attack on red if Yates shows weakness?
Also, Pinot away from FDJ feels so wrong 
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Posted on 02-05-2020 15:27
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The fitness peak is just enough to have him hang on. Beating Yates seems impossible 
Yeah, it's weird and Lotto mostly used him as a domestique. He got quite lucky here with Yates crashing out. Hopefully he'll make smarter choices in the future
Oh, and with both Pinot and Demare gone I'm very surprised FDJ are still a World Tour team given they brought no replacements in.
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Posted on 02-05-2020 15:38
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| [img-l]https://i.imgur.com/oApXgoq.png[/img-l] | Vuelta a Espana: Stage 18 | [img-r]https://i.imgur.com/oApXgoq.png[/img-r] |
| | | | | | | S. Yates | | S. Yates | | S. Yates | | L. De Plus |
The pack kept the breakaway on a very tight leash today, never allowing them an advantage of more than 2 minutes. On the last categorized climb of the day, 2 riders attacked from the pack to join and then leave the breakaway group behind: Valgren and Reichenbach. They were joined on the downhill by one of the escapees: Dylan Van Baarle.
Valgren was clearly the strongest out of the 3 and after an unsuccessful first attack he managed to leave the others two behind with a more put together attack as they were approaching the finishing climb. Dombrowski missed out on the stage win yesterday, but Dimension Data finally get it today with Valgren!
Stage | 1. | | Michael Valgren Andersen | Team Dimension Data | 4h11'55 | | 2. |  | Sébastien Reichenbach | Groupama - FDJ | + 1'21 | | 3. | | Dylan Van Baarle | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'31 | | 4. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | + 1'51 | | 5. | | Daniel Felipe Martínez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 6. | | Michael Woods | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 7. | | Pavel Sivakov | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 8. | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 9. | | Thibaut Pinot | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 10. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 11. | | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 12. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 13. | | Egan Bernal | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 14. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 15. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 75h25'33 | | 2. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 2'41 | | 3. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | + 6'15 | | 4. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 6'44 | | 5. | | Thibaut Pinot | Lotto Soudal | + 9'44 | | 6. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 11'14 | | 7. | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 11'31 | | 8. | | Michael Woods | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 11'42 | | 9. | | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | + 12'35 | | 10. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 13'14 | | 11. | | Daniel Felipe Martínez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 13'21 | | 12. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 13'53 | | 13. | | Marc Soler | Mitchelton-Scott | + 14'00 | | 14. | | Pavel Sivakov | Team INEOS | + 15'22 | | 15. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 16'17 |
| | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 242 | | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 50 | | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | 75h28'14 | | | Team INEOS | | 226h20'31 |
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Posted on 02-05-2020 17:03
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alexkr00 wrote:
The fitness peak is just enough to have him hang on. Beating Yates seems impossible
Yeah, it's weird and Lotto mostly used him as a domestique. He got quite lucky here with Yates crashing out. Hopefully he'll make smarter choices in the future
Oh, and with both Pinot and Demare gone I'm very surprised FDJ are still a World Tour team given they brought no replacements in.
Theres a bug in PCM 18 that FDJ doesnt have a budget and so never sign anyone. It happens in all databases I believe. I just transfer riders to their team myself.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 02-05-2020 17:27
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Damn. That sucks, but I don't want to make transfers for them. There's no way of fixing their budget instead?
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| valverde321 |
Posted on 02-05-2020 17:48
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alexkr00 wrote:
Damn. That sucks, but I don't want to make transfers for them. There's no way of fixing their budget instead?
I think there is, but Im not sure if I did it wrong or you need to do it before you start a career, as it didnt seem to work for me. I forget what it was though. I've done some searching and cant find it now.
My workaround was during the transfer season, if there are continental french riders that would be realistic for FDJ, but are joining an unrealistic team like Caja Rural I just edit the team ID in DYN_Contract_Cyclist to FDJs ID and they join FDJ instead in the savegame with an editor.
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 02-05-2020 18:05
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It looks like they are still doing renewals so they can at least keep some of their talents such as Gaudu, Vincent or Madouas. I guess I'll add 2 or 3 riders like you suggested.
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Posted on 02-05-2020 19:07
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The rain produced a lot of crashes in Canada and after ending Tobias Foss' season earlier than expected, it also ended Van Aert's hopes for a good result. Most of the Lotto team went down and brought Van Aert with them as well. Wout escapes unharmed, but their leader, Tim Wellens, had to withdrew.
Only 21 riders were left in the pack after the Lotto crash and it was pretty much every man for himself. Gaudu lead for a good portion of the last kilometre and looked like he was set to win until Carapaz produced an amazing amount of speed to catch up to him and beat him and take a very surprising win.
Results | 1. |  | Richard Carapaz | Movistar Team | 5h19'22 | | 2. | | David Gaudu | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 3. |  | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 4. | | Guillaume Martin | Wanty - Gobert Cycling Team | s.t. | | 5. | | Matej Mohoric | Bahrain - Merida | + 12 | | 6. | | Tiesj Benoot | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 7. |  | Patrick Konrad | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 8. |  | Roman Kreuziger | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. | | 9. |  | Edward Dunbar | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 10. | | Ion Izagirre | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 11. | | Mattia Cattaneo | Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec | + 34 | | 12. |  | Tanel Kangert | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 13. | | Tosh Van der Sande | Lotto Soudal | + 1'22 | | 14. | | Stefan Küng | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 15. | | Anthony Turgis | Team Total Direct Energie | + 1'46 | | 16. | | Jai Hindley | Team Sunweb | + 2'01 | | 17. | | Pascal Eenkhoorn | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 18. |  | Reinardt Janse V. Rensburg | Team Dimension Data | s.t. | | 19. | | Hernán Aguirre | Trek - Segafredo | + 2'33 | | 20. | | Daniel Pearson | Team INEOS | s.t. |
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Posted on 02-05-2020 19:23
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The pack had no intention of bringing back the 12 man breakaway group that we had today. At the top of the last climb, Kruijswijk attacked form the breakaway group and was joined by Ruben Fernandez. No one else had the power to follow them
The duo would keep their advantage on the downhill to settle the win between themselves. Sadly for Jumbo, Fernandez got the better of Kruijswijk and took the win. It would have been a redeeming win for Kruijswijk in a race where his main accomplishment has been to be the last man standing next to De Plus in most mountain stages.
Stage | 1. | | Ruben Fernandez | Movistar Team | 3h53'09 | | 2. | | Steven Kruijswijk | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 3. | | Niki Terpstra | Team Total Direct Energie | + 29 | | 4. | | Ruben Guerreiro | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 5. | | Pierre-Luc Perichon | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 6. | | Nico Denz | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 7. | | Valentin Madouas | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 8. | | Pavel Kochetkov | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 9. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 10. | | Tadej Pogačar | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. | | 11. | | Romain Bardet | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 12. | | Damien Gaudin | Team Total Direct Energie | s.t. | | 13. | | Danny Van Poppel | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 7'04 | | 14. | | Michael Matthews | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 15. | | Philippe Gilbert | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 79h25'46 | | 2. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 2'41 | | 3. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | + 6'15 | | 4. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 6'44 | | 5. | | Thibaut Pinot | Lotto Soudal | + 9'44 | | 6. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 11'14 | | 7. | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 11'31 | | 8. | | Michael Woods | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 11'42 | | 9. | | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | + 12'35 | | 10. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 13'14 | | 11. | | Daniel Felipe Martínez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 13'21 | | 12. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 13'53 | | 13. | | Marc Soler | Mitchelton-Scott | + 14'00 | | 14. | | Pavel Sivakov | Team INEOS | + 15'22 | | 15. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 16'17 |
| | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 242 | | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 50 | | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | 79h28'27 | | | Team INEOS | | 238h21'10 |
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Posted on 02-05-2020 19:50
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What was supposed to be a celebration race for Roglic's activity with Jumbo throughout the years turned into a nightmare for the Slovenian. Today he was involved in another crash just as the main group was about to start the mythical Angliru.
But more important for the current configuration of the race was Sam Oomen's involvement in the crash. The Dutchman sat in fourth overall at the start of the stage and is in real danger of losing his place in the GC
Many attacks from the riders that are down in the GC at the start of the Angliru. Ineos used their great numbers to set up the pace in the red jersey group using those attacks as an excuse, while in reality they were probably making sure Oomen, the only rider capable of putting Froome's podium place in danger was kept at bay
Froome's Grand Tour season this year has been a huge disappointment if you compare it to last year and today he felt like he had a point to prove and he soon went into multiple attacks. None of them were good enough to produce any real damage though and he exhausted himself as he some many riders, including Simon Yates, going past him.
It was a very hard climb and towards the end of it was every man for himself. Laurens De Plus didn't follow any attacks and chose to ride in his own rhythm, but still tried to keep Froome in his eye sight. The Brit was more than 3 and a half minutes behind him in the GC, but it was better to avoid any surprises
At the front of the race, four of the strongest climbers from the breakaway would settle the win between themselves with a sprint as soon as the slope begin to wear down. And it was Chaves who took the win on one of the most important climbs in cycling
Pinot was first from the GC riders today as he moved past Oomen in the GC to take fourth. Yates was next as he gained time over his main rivals, De Plus and Froome. Speaking of them, Froome ended up winning 20 seconds over De Plus, not nearly enough of what he need. Baring any slip ups tomorrow, De Plus will finish second and take the white jersey as well. What a race for the Belgian!
Stage | 1. | | Esteban Cháves | Mitchelton-Scott | 3h41'49 | | 2. | | Léo Vincent | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 3. | | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 4. | | Joe Dombrowski | Team Dimension Data | + 18 | | 5. | | Simon Clarke | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 1'33 | | 6. | | Sergio Andres Higuita | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 7. | | Thibaut Pinot | Lotto Soudal | + 1'46 | | 8. | | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | s.t. | | 9. | | Jan Hirt | Astana Pro Team | + 1'58 | | 10. | | Ruben Fernandez | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 11. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 12. | | Egan Bernal | Team INEOS | + 2'15 | | 13. | | David De la Cruz | Movistar Team | + 2'25 | | 14. | | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | + 2'35 | | 15. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 83h09'33 | | 2. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 3'38 | | 3. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | + 6'52 | | 4. | | Thibaut Pinot | Lotto Soudal | + 9'32 | | 5. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 10'23 | | 6. | | Michael Woods | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 12'29 | | 7. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 12'49 | | 8. | | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | + 14'10 | | 9. | | Daniel Felipe Martínez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 15'12 | | 10. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 15'28 | | 11. | | Marc Soler | Mitchelton-Scott | + 15'35 | | 12. | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 15'40 | | 13. | | Egan Bernal | Team INEOS | + 17'04 | | 14. | | Ilnur Zakarin | Team Katusha- Alpecin | + 17'14 | | 15. | | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 17'15 |
| | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 247 | | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 50 | | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | 83h13'11 | | | Team INEOS | | 249h35'47 |
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The tricky finale sure reminded Van Aert of the last stage in the Deutschland Tour, which he had won in the last two years. So there was no surprise when he broke free on the last uphill section of the day in an attempt to trick the pack. Behind him, Benoot was a leading a 3 man chase group
Van Aert move would end in the very last corner, when he was caught by the three chasers. Colbrelli won the sprint, with Benoot taking second and Roux third, while Van Aert missed out not only on the win but the podium as well
Results | 1. | | Sonny Colbrelli | Bahrain - Merida | 5h36'50 | | 2. | | Tiesj Benoot | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 3. | | Anthony Roux | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 4. | | Wout Van Aert | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 5. | | Jai Hindley | Team Sunweb | + 37 | | 6. | | Georg Preidler | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 7. | | Nicholas Schultz | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 8. | | Brent Bookwalter | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 9. | | Valerio Conti | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 10. | | Ion Izagirre | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 11. | | Matej Mohoric | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 12. | | Ivan Ramiro Sosa | Team INEOS | s.t. | | 13. | | Felix Grosschartner | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 14. | | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 15. | | David Gaudu | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 16. | | Andrea Pasqualon | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 17. | | Robert Power | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 18. | | Robert Stannard | Mitchelton-Scott | s.t. | | 19. | | Stefan Küng | Groupama - FDJ | s.t. | | 20. | | Patrick Konrad | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. |
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| | | | | | | S. Yates | | S. Yates | | S. Yates | | L. De Plus |
Very few opportunities for sprinters in this Vuelta and no win yet for Van Poppel meant that Jumbo were quick to jump at the front of the pack as the race reached the final kilometres. Despite a good lead out from Van Baarle, Jansen was not as strong as needed and Van Poppel had been overtaken by some sprinters under the 1 kilometre banner
We had a clear leader inside the last kilometre as Demare launched Hodeg perfectly which actually gave him a gap to the other sprinters and the Colombian was strong enough to held on and claim his second win of the race.
No changes at the top of the rankings today. Simon Yates wins despite this being the 3rd Grand Tour he rides this year. Not only that but he takes the points and KoM classifications as well. Laurens De Plus finishes the race of his career so far to take second in the GC and the white jersey.
Stage | 1. | | Alvaro Hodeg | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 2h17'57 | | 2. | | Simone Consonni | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. | | 3. | | Magnus Cort Nielsen | Astana Pro Team | s.t. | | 4. | | Danny Van Poppel | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 5. | | Carlos Barbero | Movistar Team | s.t. | | 6. | | Rick Zabel | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 7. | | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. | | 8. |  | Amund Grøndahl Jansen | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 9. | | Adrien Petit | Team Total Direct Energie | s.t. | | 10. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 11. | | Luka Pibernik | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 12. | | Michael Schwarzmann | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 13. | | Clément Venturini | Ag2r La Mondiale | s.t. | | 14. | | Michael Matthews | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 15. | | Phil Bauhaus | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. |
General Classification | 1. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 85h27'30 | | 2. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 3'38 | | 3. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | + 6'52 | | 4. | | Thibaut Pinot | Lotto Soudal | + 9'32 | | 5. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 10'23 | | 6. | | Michael Woods | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 12'29 | | 7. | | Vincenzo Nibali | Mitchelton-Scott | + 12'49 | | 8. | | Jakob Fuglsang | Astana Pro Team | + 14'10 | | 9. | | Daniel Felipe Martínez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 15'12 | | 10. | | Giulio Ciccone | Trek - Segafredo | + 15'28 | | 11. | | Marc Soler | Mitchelton-Scott | + 15'35 | | 12. | | Mikel Landa | Movistar Team | + 15'40 | | 13. | | Egan Bernal | Team INEOS | + 17'04 | | 14. | | Rigoberto Uran | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 17'15 | | 15. | | Wout Poels | Team INEOS | + 18'39 | | 16. | | Léo Vincent | Groupama - FDJ | + 21'17 | | 17. | | Pavel Sivakov | Team INEOS | + 22'37 | | 18. | | Esteban Cháves | Mitchelton-Scott | + 25'41 | | 19. | | Miguel Angel Lopez | Lotto Soudal | + 26'16 | | 20. | | Tadej Pogačar | UAE Team Emirates | + 26'50 | | 21. | | Romain Bardet | Ag2r La Mondiale | + 27'41 | | 22. | | Michael Valgren Andersen | Team Dimension Data | + 29'05 | | 23. | | Wilco Kelderman | Team Sunweb | + 29'45 | | 24. | | Joe Dombrowski | Team Dimension Data | + 31'39 | | 25. | | Jack Haig | Mitchelton-Scott | + 32'40 |
Points Classification | 1. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 253 | | 2. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | 143 | | 3. | | Chris Froome | Team INEOS | 124 |
KoM Classification | 1. | | Simon Yates | Bahrain - Merida | 50 | | 2. | | Joe Dombrowski | Team Dimension Data | 41 | | 3. | | Jack Haig | Mitchelton-Scott | 40 |
U25 Classification | 1. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | 85h31'08 | | 2. | | Sam Oomen | Movistar Team | + 6'45 | | 3. | | Daniel Felipe Martínez | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 11'34 |
Teams Classification | 1. | | Team INEOS | | 256h29'38 | | 2. | | Movistar Team | | + 51 | | 3. | | Mitchelton-Scott | | + 6'31 |
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Posted on 03-05-2020 11:18
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I actually I was kinda happy with how Yates was doing. Winning a Grand Tour with De Plus would have been crazy 
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It looked it was going to be a very interesting battle between the Belgium and the Dutch champions in the final sprint, but Capiot faded in the closing meters of the stage to leave Van Poppel with a rather comfortable win.
Results | 1. | | Danny Van Poppel | Team Jumbo-Visma | 5h09'04 | | 2. | | Sondre Holst Enger | Wanty - Gobert Cycling Team | s.t. | | 3. | | Ramon Sinkeldam | SEG Racing Academy | s.t. | | 4. | | Thomas Boudat | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 5. |  | Peter Sagan | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 6. | | Amaury Capiot | Sport Vlaanderen - Baloise | s.t. | | 7. | | Mathieu Van der Poel | Corendon - Circus | s.t. | | 8. | | Nils Politt | Team Katusha- Alpecin | s.t. | | 9. | | Zdeněk Štybar | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. | | 10. | | Søren Kragh Andersen | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 11. | | Pim Ligthart | Team Total Direct Energie | s.t. | | 12. | | Lars Boom | Roompot-Charles | s.t. | | 13. | | Roy Jans | Corendon - Circus | s.t. | | 14. |  | Tomasz Marczynski | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 15. | | Dimitri Claeys | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | s.t. | | 16. | | Wout Van Aert | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 17. | | Nikolas Maes | Pauwels sauzen - Vastgoedservice Continental Team | s.t. | | 18. | | Jean Pierre Drucker | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. | | 19. | | Stijn Vandenbergh | Lotto Soudal | s.t. | | 20. | | Michael Schwarzmann | BORA - hansgrohe | s.t. |
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Van Poppel absolutely dominated the race last year, but it's safe to say this year he has upped his game in regard of races won so he chose to skip this one. It was Grosu who was supposed to lead the team, but the Romanian just didn't have the legs to perform on home soil after a very hard but successful season even though he came very close to claim a redeeming stage win in the final one, but surprisingly lost to Sergio Higuita.
Higuita would win 2 of the five stages of the race, but not the overall. Ivan Garcia Cortina also won two stages, but was more consistent outside those wins than the Colombian to take the overall win as well.
Cortina took the yellow jersey after the first stage and never lost it
Stage by stage breakdown | | | Winner | | | Leader | |  | S1 | | Ivan Garcia Cortina |  | | Ivan Garcia Cortina | |  | S2 | | Sergio Andres Higuita |  | | Ivan Garcia Cortina | | | S3 |  | Onur Balkan |  | | Ivan Garcia Cortina | | | S4 | | Ivan Garcia Cortina | | | Ivan Garcia Cortina | | | S5 | | Sergio Andres Higuita | | | Ivan Garcia Cortina | |
Results | 1. | | Ivan Garcia Cortina | Bahrain - Merida | 17h04'09 | | 2. | | Sergio Andres Higuita | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 4 | | 3. | | Taco Van Der Hoorn | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 18 | | 4. | | Marc Hirschi | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 5. | | Žiga Jerman | Ljubljana - Gusto - Santic | + 24 | | 6. | | Dylan Van Baarle | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 7. |  | Krists Neilands | Israël - Cycling Academy | s.t. | | 8. | | Nicola Bagioli | CCC Team | s.t. | | 9. |  | Takeaki Amezawa | Ljubljana - Gusto - Santic | s.t. | | 10. | | Evgeny Shalunov | Gazprom - RusVelo | s.t. | | 11. | | Koen Bouwman | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 12. | | Carl Fredrik Hagen | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. | | 13. | | Damiano Caruso | Bahrain - Merida | s.t. | | 14. | | Riccardo Zoidl | CCC Team | s.t. | | 15. | | Amaro Antunes | CCC Team | s.t. | | 16. | | Jai Hindley | Team Sunweb | s.t. | | 17. | | Onur Balkan | Salcano - Sakarya - BB Team | + 58 | | 18. | | Rok Korošec | Ljubljana - Gusto - Santic | + 1'08 | | 19. | | Paolo Simion | Amore & Vita - Prodir | s.t. | | 20. | | Robert Gesink | Team Jumbo-Visma | s.t. |
 | | Trond Trondsen | Lviv Cycling Team | 80 |  |  | Andrii Bratashchuk | Team Novák | 20 | | | Ivan Garcia Cortina | Bahrain - Merida | 17h04'09 | | | CCC Team | | 51h13'39 |
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Geraint Thomas won the tile last year and even though it was on a mountainous terrain he should have been one of the favorites this year as well. But after winning the Tour de France in July, Thomas had not shown up in races to perform and today was no different and he ended up outside the top 10
It was his team - mate, Jonathan Castroviejo who managed a very surprising ride that could very well have been good enough for the title
But the actual winner would be even more surprising than Castroviejo: Lennard Kamna. The young German had a fantastic day and he stopped the clock 7 seconds faster than Castroviejo
On paper, Campenaerts was the big favorite today but he failed to even reach the podium, with Van Garderen taking the last podium spot behind Kamna and Castroviejo
Results | 1. | | Lennard Kämna | Team Sunweb | 1h03'02 | | 2. | | Jonathan Castroviejo | Team INEOS | + 7 | | 3. | | Tejay Van Garderen | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 16 | | 4. | | Victor Campenaerts | Lotto Soudal | + 23 | | 5. | | Mikkel Bjerg | Mitchelton-Scott | + 47 | | 6. | | Jesus Herrada | Cofidis, Solutions Crédits | + 1'02 | | 7. | | Bob Jungels | Deceuninck-Quick Step | + 1'19 | | 8. | | Primoz Roglic | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'20 | | 9. | | Laurens De Plus | Team Jumbo-Visma | + 1'22 | | 10. | | David De la Cruz | Movistar Team | + 1'24 | | 11. | | Geraint Thomas | Team INEOS | + 1'27 | | 12. | | Jasha Sütterlin | Movistar Team | + 1'50 | | 13. | | Georg Preidler | BORA - hansgrohe | + 1'56 | | 14. | | Artem Ovechkin | Minsk Cycling Club | + 2'02 | | 15. | | Mathias Norsgaard | UAE Team Emirates | + 2'17 | | 16. | | Matthias Brändle | Israël - Cycling Academy | + 2'20 | | 17. | | Richie Porte | Trek - Segafredo | s.t. | | 18. | | Lawson Craddock | EF Education First p/b Cannondale | + 2'26 | | 19. | | Søren Kragh Andersen | Team Sunweb | + 2'29 | | 20. | | Gasanbek Kipov | - | + 2'45 |
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